Sure and that's why I write this now and not when it's final. For now most reports only state how fast the Vulkan renderer is, but not that there are also still FPS drops. This is even more important than reports of high FPS, IMHO.

BTW, I don't have this drops in the Benchmark, which makes it even more important to report this.

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While the performance is much better with the Vulkan renderer, it's still heavily single core bound. I have around 100-140 FPS in the actual game (Ultra @1080p) but when I'm driving around the FPS drops very often below 60 FPS. When the FPS drops, always one core is at 100% load and GPU load goes down.

I don't expect any magical fix for this, since it's still a port and there will be always down sides. But instead of trying to get the max FPS more upwards, maybe Feral could try to get the load more balanced on threads, if possible. If I could have stable 60 FPS I would be more happy as with 100+FPS and drops below 60 :)

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo, lots of people wanting to see this game or that game that were already ported to Linux in turn get ported to Vulkan for performance. For me, this is more a proof of concept; it demonstrates that it will be very good if future ports go to Vulkan rather than OpenGL. Generally I'd rather see Feral's energies go to new ports rather than makeovers for old ports.

I disagree a lot here. Yes it's great to see new games out but I want to have good performance in already released games too.

I've had a lot of performance problems with Mad Max and other Feral ports. It's great to be able to play it now with decent performance. I would really like to see Vulkan in other already released Feral ports too, even I doubt we will see much of it.

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Did you guys know that the game is developed on Linux? Yep, it's true :)

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I own Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter on Steam, but there is no Serious Sam Fusion entry in my library :(

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Quoting: CyrilIs there any hope to see this game on DRM-Free ? :|

No.

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That video thumbnail...

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Quoting: g000hHi there. This might not apply to you, but some time ago I had a problem with a GTX 960 graphics where the GPU fan was intermittent and at times wasn't working at all. The GPU would heat up to very high temperatures, and then throttle itself back so that the temperature would go down. This card gave gameplay which stuttered a lot. Eventually I replaced the card under warranty and the problem went away.

Advise to take the side off your PC case, and check the GPU fan is working (when you play a game).

Everything is fine with my graphics card. No defect fan and no overheating.

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I have a AMD FX-8350. But the CPU isn't the problem as I stated above. The GPU load goes full up, so it's not a CPU bound.

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The game runs so poorly, I can't even get stable 40 FPS @1080p on lowest settings. My GTX 970 is at 100% load all the time, it's incredible. And yes, with lowest settings I mean everything on low or off till the game looks awful, still bad performance (SSAA is at 1.0). I have the latest drivers (378.13) installed.

How does Feral recommend a 970 if it can't even handle the game at 60 FPS on lowest settings? And when I look at the Windows recommend settings it says a GTX 770. What has Feral done here to bring my 970 to that load?

I haven't even played more than the tutorial, because it's literally unplayable to me since it gives me headaches when the game stutters that much.

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